Learning ActionScript 3.0: A Beginner's Guide

Learning ActionScript 3.0: A Beginner's Guide

<div><p>If you're new to ActionScript 3.0, or want to enhance your skill set, this bestselling book is the ideal guide. Designers, developers, and programmers alike will find <i>Learning ActionScript 3.0</i> invaluable for navigating ActionScript 3.0's learning curve. You'll learn the language by getting a clear look at essential topics such as logic, event handling, displaying content, classes, and much more.</p><p>Updated for Flash Professional CS5, this revised and expanded edition delivers hands-on exercises and full-color code samples to help you increase your abilities as you progress through the book. Topics are introduced with basic syntax and class-based examples, so you can set your own pace for learning object-oriented programming.</p><ul><li>Harness the power and performance of ActionScript 3.0</li><li>Control sound and video, including new access to microphone data</li><li>Create art with code by drawing vectors and pixels at runtime</li><li>Manipulate text with unprecedented typographic control</li><li>Animate graphics, create particle systems, and apply simple physics</li><li>Avoid common coding mistakes and reuse code for improved productivity</li><li>Load SWF, image, text, HTML, CSS, and XML file formats, and more</li></ul>Authors Rich Shupe and Zevan Rosser draw on their experience as Flash developers and instructors to give you a solid ActionScript foundation, revealing ways you can use code for practical, everyday projects.</div>